{"product_id":"kate-lilley-throes","title":"Kate Lilley, Throes","description":"\u003cp\u003e‘Lilley’s poems are always concise with wit and meaning, and the same bold, singed humour remains with endless thought clutching each taut line.’ GIG RYAN, \u003cem\u003eSydney Morning Herald\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKate Lilley’s fourth full-length collection, \u003cem\u003eThroes\u003c\/em\u003e, revels in the poetic possibilities of verbal and visual shapes and patterns to explore the vicissitudes of form, relation, embodiment and alteration, for good and ill. The poems play with constraint, repetition, addition, subtraction and citation, using a baroque mix of concretes, images and traditional lyric set forms (sonnet, villanelle, pantoum, cinqain) as supercharged structural and design elements. Written during and after a diagnosis of lymphoma (narrated in ‘Bloodwork’), contemporaneous with COVID, Throes stages an intimate poetic working-through of matters of life and death, treatment and cure, attachment and loss.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘Kate Lilley is one of Australia’s leading contemporary poets. Her poetry is distinctive and astute. In this new work, she begins by employing minimalism to distil the experience of serious illness into a poetry of awareness and feeling while eschewing sentimentality. She has a singular ability to experiment with language and form.’ PAM BROWN\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKate Lilley is a queer poet-scholar. Her first book, \u003cem\u003eVersary\u003c\/em\u003e (Salt, 2002) won the Grace Leven Prize and was shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Prize. Her second, \u003cem\u003eLadylike\u003c\/em\u003e (UWAP, 2012), was also shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Award. Her third, \u003cem\u003eTilt\u003c\/em\u003e (Vagabond, 2018), won the Victorian Premier's Prize. She is the editor of \u003cem\u003eDorothy Hewett Selected Poems\u003c\/em\u003e (UWAP), \u003cem\u003eMargaret Cavendish The Blazing World and other writings \u003c\/em\u003e(Penguin Classics) and \u003cem\u003eBest of Australian Poems 2024\u003c\/em\u003e (with Shastra Deo). A widely-published queer-feminist scholar, Kate was a member of the English Department at the University of Sydney for many years and is now an adjunct Associate Professor.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKate Lilley, \u003cem\u003eThroes\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSeptember 2026. 148mm x 210mm. 96pp.\u003cbr\u003eISBN 978-1-925735-92-5\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis project has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0182\/8349\/files\/CreativeAustraliaLogo_HorizontalBlack_Medium_306d6307-95f0-44ae-b87e-e933241d9921.png?v=1701428706\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vagabond Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48388374429853,"sku":null,"price":25.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0182\/8349\/files\/Lilley_Cover_lowresborder.jpg?v=1781734417","url":"https:\/\/vagabondpress.net\/products\/kate-lilley-throes","provider":"Vagabond Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}